VISION
Setting high coach education standards to improve the quality of
coach education in all UEFA member associations, with the aim of
developing better coaches and, ultimately, better players and the
overall quality of the game.
Article 1 – Definition of terms
1 In the present convention, the use of the masculine
form refers equally to the feminine.
2 For the purposes of the present convention, the
following definitions apply:
a) aptitude evaluation: procedure by a UEFA
member association to determine whether a
coach’s ability and knowledge is of a standard
suitable for admission to a coaching course.
b) assessment: continuous and final assessment
to evaluate the competence of a student
completing a coaching course.
c) candidate: individual who sends a request
to a convention party to attend a coaching
course within the framework of the present
convention.
d) coach: person in charge of coaching a
football team who holds a valid coaching
licence or an equivalent qualification.
e) coach educator: holder of a valid coach
educator’s licence, i.e. a person with football,
teaching and leadership skills who takes care
of the overall development and education of
current and future coaches. Coach educators
are all therefore technicians, teachers and
managers/leaders.
f) convention party: UEFA member association
that has signed the present convention.
g) equivalent qualification: recognition, within
UEFA’s territory, of the competence of a
coach educated by a non-convention party
or an independent course provider that is
equivalent to a UEFA diploma.
h) evaluator: expert appointed by the UEFA Jira
Panel to evaluate a UEFA member association’s
national coach education programme against
UEFA’s minimum requirements and to provide
that association with support, experience
and expertise.
i) graduate: student who has successfully
completed a coaching course.
j) independent course provider (ICP): provider
of football coaching courses within UEFA’s
territory that is not a UEFA member association.
k) locally trained coach: resident of the country
of a convention party who has been coaching
in that territory for a minimum of three years
in the previous five years.
l) long-serving professional player: professional
who has played for at least seven full years
in the top division of a FIFA or UEFA member
association.
m) non-convention party: national association
affiliated to FIFA that is not a UEFA member
association, or is a UEFA member association
but has not signed the present convention.
n) student: coaching course participant.
o) UEFA diploma: award issued to an individual
by a convention party confirming that they
have successfully completed a UEFA coaching
diploma course.
p) UEFA core diplomas: the foundation C
diploma, followed by B, A and UEFA Pro.
q) UEFA specialist diplomas: include Youth B,
Elite Youth A, Futsal B and the Goalkeeper B
and A diplomas.
r) UEFA Jira Panel: expert panel composed
of coach education experts who monitor
the implementation of the UEFA Coaching
Convention. The panel is supported by ad
hoc specialist groups.
s) UEFA licence: permit issued for a limited
period of time to the holder of a UEFA
coaching diploma authorising them to coach
at a level defined by each convention party
for its own territory.
t) qualification: any coaching diploma, licence
or certificate.
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